1. The ‘Science’ of Astrology in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Textual Note vi
5. Notes on Contributors vii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Popular Beliefs
8. 1. The ‘Science’ of Astrology in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear 29
9. 2. Staging Devils and Witches: Had Shakespeare Read Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft? 43
10. Part II. Healing and Improving
11. 3. ‘Remedies for Life’: Curing Hysterica Passio in Shakespeare’s Othello, Macbeth and The Winter’s Tale 67
12. 4. ‘More, I prithee, more’: Melancholy, Musical Appetite and Medical Discourse in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night 85
13. 5. Saving Perfection from the Alchemists: Shakespeare’s Use of Alchemy 99
14. Part III. Knowledge and (Re)Discoveries
15. 6. Of Mites and Motes: Shakespearean Readings of Epicurean Science 119
16. 7. Shakespeare’s Alhazen: Love’s Labour’s Lost and the History of Optics 133
17. 8. Shakespeare’s Montaigne: Maps and Books in The Tempest 147
18. 9. Unlimited Science: The Endless Transformation of Nature in Bacon and Shakespeare’s The Tempest 171
19. Part IV. Mechanical Tropes
20. 10. ‘Vat is the clock, Jack?’: Shakespeare and the Technology of Time 197
21. 11. ‘Wheels have been set in motion’: Geocentrism and Relativity in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 221
22. Coda: Scepticism and the Spectacular – On Shakespeare in an Age of Science 237
23. Bibliography 245
24. Index 271